The 2018 Olympic silver medallist went second overall to the Toronto Furies
in the 2018 CWHL Draft, opening the book on her professional career after a
successful four-year run at the University of Wisconsin.

The Hamilton, Ont., native has been no stranger to the red and white of
Team Canada, wearing her country’s colours in 46 games across all three
levels of the national women’s program – Canada’s National Women’s Under-18
Team, Canada’s National Women’s Development Team and Canada’s National
Women’s Team.

Her international career includes gold at the 2013 IIHF U18 Women’s World
Championship and 2014 Nations Cup, and silver at the 4 Nations Cup in 2015
and 2017, at the 2017 Nations Cup and in PyeongChang.

But Nurse was far from the only Team Canada alumna to have her name called
on draft day. When it was all over, 14 players with Team Canada experience
– including five of the six first-round picks – had joined a CWHL roster.

The list includes Halli Krzyzaniak, a two-time U18 world champion and
three-time member of the Canadian contingent at the IIHF Women’s World
Championship, and Rebecca Leslie, who wore the ‘C’ with Canada’s National
Women’s Development Team at the 2018 Nations Cup.

Four other draftees have also worn letters for Canada: Victoria Bach
(alternate captain), Krzyzaniak (captain and alternate captain) and Nurse
(alternate captain) with the development team, and Krzyzaniak (alternate
captain) and Hannah Miller (alternate captain) with the under-18 side.

All told, 10 players have won a U18 world title (Bach, Geneviève Bannon,
Catherine Daoust, Krzyzaniak, Leslie, Miller, Eden Murray, Kimberly Newell,
Nurse and Shea Tiley), five have won gold with the development team (Bach,
Mellissa Channell, Krzyzaniak, Leslie and Nurse) and one has helped the
senior team top the podium (Krzyzaniak). Combined, they’ve brought home 18
gold medals.